I’ve been burning firewood this winter as a primary form of heat. It’s quite satisfying to wake up to still-hot coals and start the day’s burn without any tinder save for a single sheet of wadded up newspaper; makes you feel like a real frontiersman.
Instead of participating in a celebration of consumerism as is tradition, [...]
This weekend saw the successful celebration of Chiangsgiving IV. We ate a 20 lb. turkey (augmented with 1.5 lbs of bacon (nb, the bacon:turkey ratio went up this year by several %)), drank somewhere north of 10–12 bottles of wine, polished off 2 bottles of fine Irish Whiskey, and something like half of a quarter-barrel [...]
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For a three minute background on the Quran, check out this story in Slate titled How To Read the Quran.
Now, read this story in the CSM and despair: An orphaned Koranic prodigy finds his place in the world.
For the truly lazy, the Cliff’s notes version of the story is that a young prodigy is about [...]
Fire Down Below movie
I have a feeling that my “one post per day” experiment is not going to last…
Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper movie
[Continuing with my experiment of posting something every day, I think I'll go with posting photos on MWF and actually writing something on TuTh. Of course, those are minimum goals; maybe I'll get motivated and post even more than that, but the intarwebs can only handle so much of one person's BS, especially if that [...]
download Being John Malkovich
Who were the first people to decide, “this is food”, I wonder.
yours truly
I’m cheating today and linking to a portrait taken at Kernel Summit. Lucille’s should pay me an advertising fee.
Here are some more shots from KS:
HP Reception
IBM Reception
Michael Clayton move
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dirty reflection, Madison, WI
Michael Clayton the movie